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Tuna commission fails Pacific Bluefin test

Posted by Dale on Wednesday, 23 July 2014 in Fishing

WWF will urge a suspension of the Pacific Bluefin tuna fishery, if fishing nations fail to set binding catch limits in line with scientific recommendations this year.WWF’s hardening stance follows an inconclusive annual meeting of the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) which deferred di...

Mercury levels in Pacific fish may double by 2050

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 26 August 2013 in Food

University of Michigan and University of Hawaii researchers claim to have solved a long-standing scientific mystery: how does mercury get into open-water fish? The researchers maintain they have an answer, and that their research indicates that mercury levels in Pacific fish will rise in the coming ...

Rising ocean acidity worst for Caribbean and Pacific

Posted by bensor on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The current trend of increasing ocean acidification, which threatens fisheries around the world, is driven mainly by man-made changes and is higher even than that seen at the end of the last ice age, some 11,000 year ago, a study has said. Much of the carbon released by human activity ends up in the...